TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
WTF were they thinking?! 
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Highbury & Islington station - before and after
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bi0boy
Power User
WTF were they thinking?!
"Oh no! It's been bombed and we don't have lots of money."
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
So it was bombed but remained in use for that amount of time? Couldn't have been that bad!!!!
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
There is also this "entrance/exit" on Holloway Road. Last I heard though it was filled up with electrical and signalling equipment. Bit daft considering the football crowds due to the Emirates. I know they're about to open up the new entrance that's been bricked up since it was built soon, but surely this would've also helped capacity?
temper_tantrum
The beauty of the ride
GOOD REFERENCE
But yeah, omg how hideous does the original make the current building look. Yuk.
joustmaster
offcumdun
There is a plaque on the other side of the road commemorating the bomb that mashed up that area. (top of upper st, other side of the road)
Crispy
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That entrance was for the lifts to the northern city line (finsbury park-moorgate). The lifts were replaced by escalators when the Victoria line was built, so the entrance is no use now.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I don't think the 1904 building (TS's picture) ever did connect to the victoria line (built in the 60s) - it was built for the Moorgate - Finsbury Park line (opened by the Metropolitan Railway, and ended up run as a subsidiary of the Northern Line - more here
Dunno about the NLR building - from what I've seen, a lot of buildings were 'make do and mend' repaired in the aftermath of the war, and it was a heck of a long time before all the 'temporary' was sorted out.
It was a while before the tide of opinion turned in favour of conservation - the Victorian generation demolished a lot of earlier buildings to build what's now seen as conservable; quite a few people criticised what was built in the 30s that's now seen as worthwhile modernist / art deco. 60s architecture hasn't generally made it yet...
There's also the way public spending works in the UK - capital spend (i.e. demolish and build new as cheap as possible) is seen as more acceptable than revenue spend (i.e. maintain what's already there)
Dunno about the NLR building - from what I've seen, a lot of buildings were 'make do and mend' repaired in the aftermath of the war, and it was a heck of a long time before all the 'temporary' was sorted out.
It was a while before the tide of opinion turned in favour of conservation - the Victorian generation demolished a lot of earlier buildings to build what's now seen as conservable; quite a few people criticised what was built in the 30s that's now seen as worthwhile modernist / art deco. 60s architecture hasn't generally made it yet...
There's also the way public spending works in the UK - capital spend (i.e. demolish and build new as cheap as possible) is seen as more acceptable than revenue spend (i.e. maintain what's already there)
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
was the roundabout also caused by bombs? I mean they've tidied it up and that - but I'm sure there were buildings there before.
joustmaster
offcumdun
surely you aren't old enough to remember what it looked like before the war!
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
WTF were they thinking?!
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Similar(ish) thing happened with Forest Hill.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
what are doing round there if you don't like gooners?
maomao
普費斯
Going home from work. I used to work in Vauxhall, lived in Dalston and finished work at 4pm on a Saturday. While I would if I could it's hard to avoid gooners completely in North East London.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
There is also this "entrance/exit" on Holloway Road. Last I heard though it was filled up with electrical and signalling equipment. Bit daft considering the football crowds due to the Emirates. I know they're about to open up the new entrance that's been bricked up since it was built soon, but surely this would've also helped capacity?
Isn't that now a famous branch of Cash Converters / Cash Generator ? It's only famous for having once been the station entrance though.
The urban redevelopments of the sixties and seventies saw lots of Victoria / Edwardian redbrick buildings being torn down. Why? The idea was they were outdated, old school, and we need to be modern. So we built lots of cubular buildings made of concrete that are now being branded as ugly and torn down. Only to be replaced by steel and glass, which in thirty years time will similarly be derided as torn down as ugly.
Best example I can think of is the Central Library in Birmingham. Check the victorian redbrick construction built in the 1890's, demolished in 1974 for a ring road, replaced by a cubular conrete building, which is now going to be torn down and replaced with what looks like lego covered in barbed wire.
Example:
Old Library: http://www.bobpiper.co.uk/Media.jpeg
Current, 1974 library : http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/news/migrated-news/images/birmingham-central-library
New, under construction library: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images...38697741308/Library-of-Birmingham-des-002.jpg
Compare this:
Birmingham Snow Hill Station then - http://warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrbsh65.htm
Birmingham Snow Hill Station now - http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/snow_hill.php
(or this) http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/00/25/002523_71594f44.jpg
Also see:Nottingham Victoria Railway Station....
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Yes, it seems I was. My bad.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Isn't that now City Thameslink?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
wrong snow hill - that one's in Birmingham, and also on a line that got re-opened.
the one in London is on the Thameslink route but didn't re-open, City Thameslink is south of Holborn Viaduct.
